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Armed teenage bandits rob, beat, E.B.D family
…Escape with cash, jewelry after raiding refrigerator
Three teenage bandits, two armed with guns and one with a knife, yesterday robbed a Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) family of their gold and silver jewelry and over $370,000 in cash.
The house the gunmen entered and robbed
The bandits entered the family’s Lot 77 Little Diamond, EBD yard around 01:00 hrs and tied up the security guard on duty. They then waited until everyone was asleep before entering the house through a window around 02:45 hrs.
According to Shanty Luckram, she was asleep when someone hit her on her forehead and demanded that she remained quiet and “hand over all the money and jewelry.”
“The person duct-taped my mouth and tell me to cover my face and after I did, one of them took another cloth and threw it over my head so I wouldn’t see. They tied my husband’s hands behind his back and taped his mouth.”
“I showed them where the first set of money was and they took it. That was $60, 000,” the woman said.
The woman, who operates a canteen at a private school a few villages from her home said, the men asked her if that was the only cash she had while threatening to shoot her.
“One of them took off one of my rings and left my wedding band, and another one pulled it off. He took off my four pairs of silver bangles and my husband’s two gold chains. They asked for more and my husband told them where to find US$550 and even after getting that, they were not satisfied.
After they threatened again to shoot me, my husband had to tell them where the last set of cash – $200,000 was.”
She told Kaieteur News that the bandits, who were teenagers, searched the entire house for more money and jewelry for more than two hours.
Luckram said that the men entered her refrigerator drank beers; ate chocolates and apples while “tumbling each and every corner of the house.”
“After they left we went outside and see they tie up the security guard. He said that they had tied him since 0:100 hrs and they were asking him a lot of questions. They waited until we were asleep before they came in,” Luckman said.
Police are investigating.
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